Mystery
THE GORGEOUS GHOUL.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The second Hannah Van Doren mystery. Babcock was a Black Mask author.
THE KISS OF DEATH.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
MEDUSA'S HEAD.
New York, London: D. Appleton and Company, 1926. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 1-120 [121] [122: blank], original decorated red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. First printing with "(1)" at base of text on page [121]. Weird mystery novel. "Bacon, a successful author in the first quarter of the twentieth century of fiction that was both 'popular' and 'literary', has tended to fall between these two stools in the estimate of posterity. This is unfortunate as she was a skillful craftsman and had things to say, especially on the subject of the emancipated modern woman, where her views manage to contain nuance, skepticism and passion. She also had a recurrent interest in the supernatural, as documented by Dorothy Scarborough in her important early study, The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction. The main titles of relevance here are THE STRANGE CASES OF DR. STANCHON (1913), IN THE BORDER COUNTRY (1909) and the present title." - Robert Eldridge. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 26. Bleiler (1948), p. 37. Reginald 00697. Hubin (1994), p. 40.
THE APPREHENSIVE DOG ...
Garden City: Published for The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1942. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-iv] v-vii [viii] [1-2] 3-294, original terra cotta cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, top edge stained terra cotta, fore and bottom edges rough-trimmed, white endpapers. First U.S. edition. A Reggie Fortune novel. Published in the UK as NO MURDER (1942). Hubin (1994), p. 41.
BLACK LAND WHITE LAND.
Garden City, New York: Published for the Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1937. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. A Reggie Fortune novel.
THE CAT'S WHISKER ...
Garden City: Published for The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1944. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-223, original blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, fore-edge untrimmed. First edition. A Reggie Fortune novel. Published in the UK in 1945 by Macdonald as DEAD MAN'S EFFECTS. Mr. Fortune investigates murder and sabotage during World War II. Hubin (1994), p. 41.
HONOUR AMONG THIEVES.
Garden City: Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1947. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-191 [192: blank], original gray boards, front and spine panels stamped in black, fore-edge untrimmed. First U.S. edition. A novel featuring shyster lawyer Joshua Clunk. Hubin (1994), p. 41.
THE LIFE SENTENCE ...
Garden City: Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1946. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1-4] 5-6 [7-9] 10-250 [251-252: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], original red boards, front and spine panels stamped in black, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First U.S. edition. A Reggie Fortune novel. Hubin (1994), p. 41.
MEET MR. FORTUNE: A REGGIE FORTUNE OMNIBUS.
Garden City: Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1942. Octavo, pp. [1-12] [1] 2-546 [547-548: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original black cloth, spine panel stamped in red, fore-edge untrimmed. First edition. An omnibus volume collecting a novel, THE BISHOP'S CRIME (1940) and twelve stories featuring Reggie Fortune, plus "Mr. Fortune," an essay by Bailey introducing his fictional sleuth. Barzun and Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime 2336. Hubin (1994), p. 41.
MR. CLUNK'S TEXT.
New York: Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1939. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [i-vi] vii-viii [ix-x] [1] 2-303 [304-306: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, cream endpapers. First U.S. edition. A novel featuring shyster lawyer Joshua Clunk. Published in the UK as THE VERON MYSTERY (1939). Hubin (1994), p. 42.
MR. FORTUNE FINDS A PIG.
Garden City: Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1943. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-iv] v-vi [vii-viii] [1] 2-269 [270: blank], original blue gray cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, cream endpapers. First U.S. edition. A Reggie Fortune novel. Mr. Fortune investigates a mysterious outbreak of typhus fever in a remote village in Wales during World War II. Hubin (1994), p. 41.
ORPHAN ANN.
Garden City: Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1941. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-viii [ix-x] [1] 2-307 [308-310: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, top edge stained blue, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough trimmed, cream endpapers. First U.S. edition. A novel featuring shyster lawyer Joshua Clunk. Published in the UK as THE LITTLE CAPTAIN (1941). Hubin (1994), p. 41.
THE TWITTERING BIRD MYSTERY.
Garden City: Published for The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1937. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-vi] vii-viii [ix-x] [1] 2-299 [300: blank], original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, top edge stained red, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough trimmed, cream endpapers. First U.S. edition. The fourth novel featuring shyster lawyer Joshua Clunk. Published in the UK as CLUNK'S CLAIMANT (1937). Hubin (1994), p. 41.
THE WRONG MAN.
Garden City: Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1945. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [11-4] 5-6 [7-8] 9-252 [253-254: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original burgundy cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, fore-edge untrimmed. First edition. A novel featuring shyster lawyer Joshua Clunk. The UK edition was published in 1946 by Macdonald. Hubin (1994), p. 42.
A KEY TO FREDRIC BROWN'S WONDERLAND: A STUDY AND AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CHECKLIST.
Georgetown, CA: Talisman Literary Research, Inc., 1981. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 85 copies done in hardcover. Bibliographical data plus reminiscences by Elizabeth Brown and Harry Altshuler (who was the author's literary agent).
DEATH STOPS THE BELLS.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
MY FIRST MURDER.
New York: St. Martin's, 1989. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT.
New York, Evanston and London: Harper & Row Publishers, [1965]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Introduces the character of Virgil Tibbs, and the basis for the feature film. This copy's text has been marked up to block out set ups for the script of the film. Edgar Award winner for best first novel. Hubin, p. 44.
LIGHTS, CAMERA, MURDER.
[New York]: Belmont Books, [1960]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Belmont Books 215. Paperback original. A Bill Lennox mystery novel. Hubin, p. 735.
DEALING OUT DEATH.
Philadelphia, David McKay, 1948. Octavo, boards. First edition. A Bill Lennox hard boiled novel, set in Las Vegas. Ballard was a Black Mask writer. Hubin, p. 652.
THE SEVEN SISTERS.
New York: A Permabook Edition published by Pocket Books, Inc., [1962]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Permabook M-4258. Paperback original. Crime novel set in Las Vegas. Hubin, p. 45.
THE CHINESE MASK.
[New York]: A Signet Book, [1965]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Signet D2715. Paperback original. The second Joaquin Hawks spy thriller. Set in China. Hubin, p. 45.
THE SPY IN BANGKOK.
[New York]: A Signet Book, [1965]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Signet D2820. Paperback original. The third Joaquin Hawks spy thriller. Set in Thailand. Hubin, p. 45.
THE SPY IN THE JUNGLE.
[New York]: A Signet Book, [1965]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Signet D2674. Paperback original. The first Joaquin Hawks spy thriller. Set in Southeast Asia. Hubin, p. 45.
FLYING DEATH ...
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1927. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-2] 3-198, title page printed in orange and black, original yellow cloth, front panel stamped in green and blind, spine panel stamped in green. First edition. Fantastic adventure novel concerning the activities of the "Flying Death," an organization of aerial bandits. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 112. Reginald 00799. Bleiler (1978), p. 14. Hubin (1994), p. 45.